Center for TMJ, Orofacial Pain and Sleep Apnea

We Can Help You !

Empowering you to rid your TMJ pain/issue

Specialist for TMJ, Orofacial Pain & Sleep Apnea

In Dental Sleep Medicine

Diplomate of American Academy of Orofacial Pain
The Only Board Certification Recognized by the ADA*

*ADA = American Dental Association

What Do We Treat?

QUESTION: WHO IS A TMJ SPECIALIST ?

POSSIBLE SLEEP APNEA?

Day time sleepiness

Snoring

Gasping or choking for air
or stop breathing

High Blood Pressure

High BMI

> 50 years of age / male

Our area of specialization is the jaw joint and its associated muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves
We help in the management of TMJ, Pain, Headache, Sleep Apnea appliances and many other issues of the Orofacial Region

SERVICES

Symptoms below can be part of your TMJ Dysfunction

CLICKING WITH PAIN?

Pain on Chewing

Pain on rest

You can't bite normally

Your mouth deflects to one side

Late, Early or Loud Click

Embarrassed with the TMJ sounds

PAINFUL SYMPTOMS?

Ear Pain

Ear Fullness

Tinnitus

Migraine

Grinding

Tension Type Headache

Atypical Facial Pain

CANT SLEEP ?

Are you fatigued in day?

Sleep bruxism

Multiple times waking at night

Waking every 2 hours

CPAP intolerant

Snoring causes sleep deprivation

DIFFICULTY OPENING WIDE?

Limited Opening ?

Sharp pain on opening

Closed Lock

Muscle Spasm

Muscle pain

IT CAN BE INTER-RELATED

TMJ dysfunction

Neck pain,

Headache

Poor sleep issues,

History of trauma, sports injury

Ear symptoms

TMJ (or TMD)

This is a complex group of disorders with various causes.
For doctors, the TMJ is the jaw joint. But patients call the pain at this location - TMJ or TMJ dysfunction

Myofascial Pain

Muscle pain may be localized or refer to other sites. If you have a dull aching, burning pain in the muscle or soreness on chewing or even resting. Consider this as a primary causation.

Sleep Apnea

Feeling day fatigue, waking multiple times during the night gasping or snorting for air. You may have sleep apnea, a serious health condition. If you can't tolerate CPAP we can help.

Neuropathic Pain

Also called atypical facial pain, atypical odontalgia, phantom tooth pain. The nerve is damaged either peripherally or centrally. Numerous prior treatment may be unsuccessful

Snoring

Snoring can affect your bed partner's sleep. Deprivation of sleep can cause irritation, moodiness, fatigue, depression. For the some it may be a sign of developing sleep apnea. Lets address it before it worsens..

Headaches

TMD can cause severe headaches. This may be confused with migraine, cluster or other primary headaches. We can assist with Tension Type Headache as the trigger may be TMJ.

More Information

Ranjivendra Nath DDS MS MS

Diplomate of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain

Board Certified, FAGD, FICOI.

University Trained : University of Southern California, Loma Linda University, Rutgers University. Residency training at UCLA / USC in TMD

Meet the Dr.

20 +

Clinical Years in Pasadena

1200+

CE Hours To Help You

1000s

Patient Treatment

Priority Care - You

ssU

THE PROCESS

Always the first step is to listen to the patient and then review all the paperwork
which the patient fills out. Usually the appointment lasts 1 hour. There will be imaging taken.

Our mission is to provide non-surgical services to immediately and effectively improve the patients' acute or chronic pain and to improve the quality of life. To avoid Phase 2 therapy in TMJ patients. To provide sleep appliances under the supervision of a sleep doctor.

Mission Statement

* Orthotics & splints of many types
* Medications
* Spray and Stretch
* LLLT
* Muscle injections, TMJ injections
* Botox
* Physical therapy
* And others

Methodology

All patients that we see are only for the specialized field of orofacial pain and sleep apnea. We do not treat any dental issues. If we find pathology, the patient will be referred to their dentist for further treatment. Trust is essential for referring doctors and us for the patients treatment.